gourd
/ɡʊɚd/ nom C2En français : calebasse
- Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae).
- A hard-shelled fruit from a plant in Lagenaria or Cucurbita.
- The dried and hardened shell of such fruit, made into a drinking vessel, bowl, spoon, or other objects designed for use or decoration.
- Loaded dice.
- A person's head. · I got so stoned last night. I was out of my gourd.
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Dans la bibliothèque
A sailor was rubbing his limbs with a woollen cloth; another, whom he recognized as the one who had cried out “Courage!” held a gourd full of rum to his mouth; while the third, an old sailor, at once the pilot and captain, looked on with that egotistical pity men feel for a misfortune that they have escaped yesterday, and which may overtake them tomorrow.
A piece of bread was brought, and Jacopo offered him the gourd.
Dantès glanced that way as he lifted the gourd to his mouth; then paused with hand in mid-air.
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